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Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Britannia statue

1849

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Railway bridge section

1850

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Model railway turntable

1850

England and her Soldiers

1859

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

John Ellis

1858

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854